Anchor for check-row wires



(N0 Model.)

c; s. oom. ANCHORTOR CHECK Row WIRES. No.-:292,832. Patented Feb. 5,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES s. LOGKE, or JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

ANCHOR FOR CH EC K-ROW WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,832, dated February 5, 1&4,

Application filed October 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LOGKE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at J oliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchors for Check-Bow Wires, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front perspective view, and Fig. 2 a rear perspective View.

This invention relates to certain improve ments in anchors for check-row wires to operate a check-rowattachment for seed planters, and is of that class in which a tongue, to the upper end of which the check-row wire is at-- tached, is pivoted to the earth at the foot and swings from one side to the other, to carry the check-row wire-forward to be in line with the advancing or approaching planter, the particular improvements in which I will proceed to explain. I

Referring to the drawings, a representsthe tongue pivoted at R to a beam, B, which lies on the earth, and having a slit, w, in its upper end to receive the wire to, and having a guy-- ing the wire w up off the ground, to hold the wire w upon a line with the approaching planter, and to render it easy for the approaching planter, by means of the wire w, to swing the tongue a over onto theopposite rest. It is in these rests that my improvement principally lies, and in thebed-beani B, for supporting both sary to have but one rest, for the reason that the-machine always leaves the tongue, while its outer end is supported on a rest. When it returns it will swing the tongue over on the ground, as is shown in Fig. 2 by the dotted lines. By the tongue being upon the rest it makes it easy to swing the tongue over, because it isthat much on its journey over, and it is not really necessary that the check-row wire should beheld up on a line with the planter as it approaches. The use of the rests is principally to hold the outer end of the tongue up a ways off the ground, so it will start to swing over more easily than it would if it lay on the ground.

I am aware that cross-bars attached to the tongue have been used for this purpose, which means of support of course I do not claim; but I am not aware of the use of rests attached to the bed piece or beam B for their support and to support the tongue ever having been used; and the advantages of this support over that named are very appreciable.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

In the anchor for check-row wires described, a beam, B, having a tongue, (1, pivoted thereto, and a pin, P, for securing it in a horizontal position in the earth, and provided with an upturned arm or rest, S, secured to its outer end or ends, forming a support for said pivoted tongue, for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES s. LOCK-E.

Witnesses:

THOS. H. HUTCHINS, J.W. HUrc-nms. 

